Mainzer Domchor

The Mainzer Domchor is a boys’choir. For the first time the existence of the choir was documented in the year 1247.

All in all there are about 150 boys and young men singing in the choir. They meet three times a week for rehearsals. The most important task of the choir is the singing in the Sunday morning services at the cathedral. Therefore, the young singers are present at most of the church holidays and the Sunday services.

Beyond that in the last few years the choir has become famous because of its performances/concerts in Germany and all over the world. Most important performances have been in Berlin, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro, Montreal , Rome, Jerusalem, Paris, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Sydney, Melbourne, Kapstadt, Durban, Danzig and so on.
There are enough CD-records, radio performances, TV-performances which document the capacity of the choir. Several gigs at German TV-shows helped the choir to become even more famous. The repertoire of the choir is miscellaneous. They sing songs from the Middle-Ages (Gregorian music) as well as songs from the present and folk music. But they also sing orchestral music, like Mozart Requiem etc. Many orchestras have worked together with the Mainzer Domchor: Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Radiosymphonyorchestra Berlin (RIAS), Beethovenorchestra and so on. The Mainzer Domchor has also been conducted by famous conductors like Guiseppe Sinopoli, Sylvain Cambreling, Leif Segerstam, Riccardo Chailly, Dimitrij Kitajenko, Marcello Viotii and David Shallon.

There have also been opera performances where boys and men attended at the stage, e.g. Magic Flute (Mozart), A midsummernights Dream (Mendelssohn), Elias (Mendelssohn), Carmen (Bizet) etc.